100 years ago, 1917
Seventy Lunn and Sweet bowlers opened their first bowling league last evening at the Bowlaway lanes and when the last maple had been toppled over there was little doubt that it was one of the biggest nights ever witnessed in local bowling circles. A fourteen team league is unusual in any city, especially when made up of five-man teams, and the Lunn and Sweet organization is by far the largest which ever toed the mark on a Lewiston alley.

50 years ago, 1967
(Photo Caption) Lewiston Daily Sun Carrier David Stetson, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Manson Stetson of 72 Allen Ave., Lewiston, is the recent winner of the Sun-Journal newspaperboy prize, a reproduction of the Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington. Here, Stetson presents the portrait, mounted in a frame and properly inscribed, to his school principal, Joseph Mahan of Montello Junior High School. The presentation was made Friday, National Newspaperboy Day. The youth is Sun carrier on a route covering the Farwell Street area and Russell Street in Lewiston.

25 years ago, 1992
Etonic, Inc. is facing a lawsuit under the Maine Plant Closing Law filed last week by 35 former employees who claim the sneaker company failed to give them severance pay after closing its Auburn factory. According to attorney Michael J. Welch, who is representing the workers, the Delaware corporation has not offered to pay anything. The suit states that at the time of the employees’ termination, they were owed severance pay equaling one week’s gross wages for the last 12 months of employment, multiplied by the number of years they were employed by Etonic.

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